intermission

intermission has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
• n.. Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
• n.. The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
• n.. Intervention; interposition.
• n.. the act of suspending activity temporarily
• n.. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something